MedTech used to be a comparatively easy word to understand. A medical device had a physical form. It could be inspected, described in mechanical, electrical or material terms, compared with prior art, patented, challenged, cleared for launch and monit ...

From industry signals to focused conversations Corporate IP management is changing under pressure from several directions at once. Technological acceleration, increasing information volumes, tighter resources, and rising expectations from business fun ...

Europe does not lack innovation activity. Across universities, startups, scale-ups, research institutes, industrial ecosystems and public funding programs, new technologies are being developed at impressive speed. Artificial intelligence, quantum tech ...

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For many years, senior IP experts could build authority through technical knowledge, legal precision and analytical depth. These things still matter. In complex IP work, they matter a great deal. But they no longer explain why some experts become trus ...

At the international CEIPI Summer School 2026 in Strasbourg, the IP Expertise Demand Index was presented in a setting that could hardly have been more appropriate. CEIPI, the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies at the University of ...

Quantum technology presents an unusual communication challenge for intellectual property firms. It is scientifically complex, commercially promising and still characterised by considerable uncertainty about which technical architectures, applications ...

Industrial IoT is no longer only about connecting machines or collecting operational data. It is increasingly changing how industrial companies understand, stabilize and improve complex production systems. In adhesive, coating and functional material ...

Digital transformation is often discussed as if it were mainly about software, platforms, cloud systems, data analytics and artificial intelligence. That is understandable because many of the most visible changes of the last two decades have happened ...

Smart Manufacturing has entered a phase where connectivity itself is no longer the story. The harder question is what companies can still control once industrial products generate data, depend on software, rely on standards, interact with platforms an ...